{"id":9792,"date":"2017-01-16T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2017\/01\/16\/trump-pressures-congress-to-replace-obamacare-quickly\/"},"modified":"2017-01-16T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:52:00","slug":"trump-pressures-congress-to-replace-obamacare-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/trump-pressures-congress-to-replace-obamacare-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Pressures Congress To Replace Obamacare Quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President-elect Donald Trump said he’s finishing a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act with a proposal that would provide “insurance for everybody,” according to a report by The Washington Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

He did not get into any specific details about his healthcare plan during a telephone interview with the newspaper. But he did say it would be “much less expensive” and would involve “much lower deductibles.”<\/p>\n

Trump added that he does not plan to cut benefits for Medicare and that he does not want a single-payer healthcare system.<\/p>\n

His plan will be revealed, Trump suggested, after the U.S. Senate confirms his nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, Rep. Tom Price, a Republican from Georgia. The Senate Finance Committee has not announced the timing of Price’s confirmation hearing yet.<\/p>\n

Still, Trump said he expects Republicans in Congress to replace Obamacare quickly with his plan and is ready to put pressure on lawmakers, telling the Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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“I think we will get approval. I won’t tell you how, but we will get approval. You see what’s happened in the House in recent weeks,” Trump said, referencing his tweet during a House Republican move to gut their independent ethics office, which along with widespread constituent outrage was cited by some members as a reason the gambit failed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Trump’s comments come as Republicans continue their debate<\/a> over how exactly to repeal and replace Obamacare, while Democrats have been holding rallies around the country in support of the existing healthcare law.<\/p>\n

Last week, GOP lawmakers approved a budget resolution that sets up a framework for repealing the Affordable Care Act. But House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has said that lawmakers are not “holding hard deadlines” for replacing the federal health policy.<\/p>\n

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